The prophet's handbook

As you can see, a close working relationship between forerunning and subsequent prophets and apostles must be forged. That is the only way prophets will internalize and help apostles inculcate their apostolic revelations as part of a team. Very close and strategic team meetings must happen between the two to unfold God’s plan and see to its continued success. The apostle’s house (the church, its affiliates, and intra extra ministries along with its congregation) then serves God as a territorial stronghold. Furthermore, it becomes a supernatural watch station for the Lord, one of His jurisdictional precincts. It is where His territorial angels (similar to those over the seven churches in Revelation) are assigned to serve. Now you can see what the opening words of the Lord’s revelation to the seven churches indicate. The superintendent of that spiritual precinct, the church, is the church prophet. The pastor functions as its governor when the church is not answering to an apostle. In this context, the pastor is over the prophet. If there is a bishop over the church, or an apostle, the pastor fills his or her role beneath him. Ministry under Apostleship The apostle or bishop licenses pastoral performance, which is nevertheless still above the church prophet. The bulk of the church’s spiritual weight and authority is delegated, according to God, to the prophet of the church by the pastor. God’s ideal, however, is that the two, the pastor and the prophet, form a bond that makes delineation of each one’s authority and roles incidental and not paramount. The Controversy over Office versus Gifting Of the many issues hindering the prophetic and God’s rightful restoration of it to mainstream Christian service, the question of the gift over the office is the most troublesome one. Hardly anyone affected by the prophetic today fails to question the difference between the two. Is the gift more than the office? Should the prophet’s ministry be regarded as an office, and if so what does that mean to the church’s hierarchy? Is hierarchy of God, and where is it in the Bible? How does the prophet’s position affect the historical place of pastors? On it goes year after year, with the argument over what validates a prophet and makes this type of minister different raging on. Distinguishing the prophet from the prophesier (the office from the gift) is critical and that is what this section does. The best way to separate and distinguish between the two is with a